'There's no support for your cause': KF Seetoh advises aspiring hawkers and F&B owners to 'think twice' before starting business

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Last Wednesday (March 6), the owner of The CoCo Rice, Aries Chan, announced that she would be shuttering both her stalls at Tiong Bahru Food Centre and One Punggol Hawker Centre.

stall closures, also cautioning aspiring F&B owners and hawkers to consider carefully before stepping into the business.In the post published on March 11, the 62-year-old claimed that when Aries was setting up shop at One Punggol Hawker Centre, the management of Punggol Social Enterprise Hawker Centre had told her that she couldn't sell nasi lemak as there was another stall in the same food centre that was already doing so.

"If anyone is looking to start an F&B or hawker stall in Singapore, be very careful. I urge you to think twice," he said. When asked what he thinks can be done to ease their hiring woes, he said: "Just lift that foreign manpower supply and remove the levies, these charges invariably go back to the customers.AsiaOne has reached out to the NEAIn response to AsiaOne's queries, The CoCo Rice's Aries clarified some of KF Seetoh's comments in his Facebook post."When I wanted to open a stall , I proposed two kinds of food I wanted to sell — nasi lemak and nasi kandar," she explained.

" wants variety. I understand from their point of view. They don't want repetition."The killer, though, were manpower costs and the rising cost of ingredients. Hiring people was also a problem.

 

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